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The European Commission's broad information-gathering powers came under scrutiny when Vivendi and Lagardère challenged requests for documents from personal devices during a gun-jumping investigation. The General Court's dismissal of these challenges confirms that competition authorities can access professional communications on personal devices, even when fundamental rights concerns are raised, provided appropriate safeguards are in place.

The Financial Conduct Authority has published final rules requiring UK listed companies to align sustainability and climate disclosures with UK Sustainability Reporting Standards, replacing the current TCFD framework. Operating on a 'comply or explain' basis, these rules extend beyond climate to cover all material sustainability matters including biodiversity, workforce risks, and supply chain resilience.

The judgment examines the principle that gains and losses incurred in the course of multiple breaches of trust cannot usually be set off against one another.

With the rise and rapid adoption of advanced data analytics and AI tools, transfer pricing compliance and risk assessment is quickly shifting from being a documentation-focused process to a near real time, data-driven one.

HMRC has issued detailed transfer pricing compliance guidelines, emphasizing roles for "UK risk leads" and "transfer pricing specialists" to manage compliance, avoid high-risk approaches, and ensure thorough documentation and functional analysis, reducing audit uncertainties for UK businesses.

On 20 June 2025, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launched a consultation on proposed changes to its mergers guidance on jurisdiction and procedure (CMA2).

The Court of Justice of the European Union has issued two landmark rulings examining when sporting regulations that restrict competition can be justified by legitimate public-interest objectives. These decisions clarify the scope of the Wouters/Meca-Medina doctrine and its application to rules governing football agents, both at national and international federation levels.

The UK's new regime for public offers of securities and admissions to trading on capital markets came into effect on Monday, 19 January 2026.

The UK Government has announced a call for evidence as it seeks to review the first two years of the operation of the National Security...

In February this year, we examined in detail the first ever substantive judgment under the UK's collective action regime, in the case of Justin Le Patourel v BT Group PLC.

On 4 October 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) upheld the European Commission's decision to prohibit the proposed joint venture (JV) between ThyssenKrupp and Tata Steel Europe...

On 26 November 2025, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced several updates from an employment tax perspective in the Autumn Budget.

Following an extensive 15-month investigation, the CMA concluded that it did not have jurisdiction to review Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI.

This month, we consider a number of recent FTT decisions (L, and various third party applications relating to Osmond and Allen) which examine the concept of open justice and the circumstances in which this principle can be overridden.

The High Court has held that a term sheet between a buyer and selling managers contained legally binding and enforceable obligations. It also found that warranties given by management reflected parallel representations, and that the buyer was entitled to bring a claim in misrepresentation.

Claimants who have been the victims of fraud often face the difficulty that the perpetrators have swiftly dissipated the assets.